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The Chaos theory as a field of study can apply to philosophy which is highly sensitive to initial conditions—the butterfly effect. A small difference in initial states yield widely diverging outcomes for ever-changing systems. | The Chaos theory as a field of study can apply to philosophy which is highly sensitive to initial conditions—the butterfly effect. A small difference in initial states yield widely diverging outcomes for ever-changing systems. | ||
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If the word religion1<Ref>Pure Religion. What is it and who does it? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php</Ref> at one time was the performance of your duty to “your fellow man” then under that definition how you perform that duty would be your true religion. At another period of time and among some societies that duty was performed by charity and grassroots institutions like the Church. At other times in history people did not depend on charity but forced contributions through rulers like Cain, Lemech, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Saul, Solomon and Caesar. These men called themselves benefactors but exercised authority one over the other. | If the word religion1<Ref>Pure Religion. What is it and who does it? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php</Ref> at one time was the performance of your duty to “your fellow man” then under that definition how you perform that duty would be your true religion. At another period of time and among some societies that duty was performed by charity and grassroots institutions like the Church. At other times in history people did not depend on charity but forced contributions through rulers like Cain, Lemech, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Saul, Solomon and Caesar. These men called themselves benefactors but exercised authority one over the other. | ||
The change in meaning of that one word could cause a major shift in the thinking of people and therefore society as a whole. This change would be resisted unless you get people to first imagine that religion was what you think about God and not what you do in the performance of your duty to God and your fellow man. | The change in meaning of that one word could cause a major shift in the thinking of people and therefore society as a whole. This change would be resisted unless you get people to first imagine that religion was what you think about God and not what you do in the performance of your duty to God and your fellow man.<Ref>That Word You Use- Part 1- Religion in the constitution? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWordnwv.php </Ref>This idea that what you say you believe trumps what you actually do would be the direct opposite of what Christ taught as His doctrine.<Ref>Matthew 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.<Br> | ||
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.<Br> | |||
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: | Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: | ||
<Br>Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. | |||
Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. | <Br>Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.<Br> | ||
Luke 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:<Br> | |||
Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. | Luke 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.<Br> | ||
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.<Br> | |||
Luke 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: | John 14:15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments.<Br> | ||
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.<Br> | |||
Luke 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. | |||
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. | |||
John 14:15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments. | |||
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. | |||
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.</Ref> | John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.</Ref> | ||
So to get the masses to accept or conform to this new definition of religion as what you believe about God you will have to change the meaning of the word faith too. | So to get the masses to accept or conform to this new definition of religion as what you believe about God you will have to change the meaning of the word faith too. | ||
Faith was not just what you said you believed but was defined as probity. Probity was defined as “Justice, honesty. A man of probity is one who loves justice and honesty, and who dislikes the contrary. | Faith was not just what you said you believed but was defined as probity. Probity was defined as “Justice, honesty. A man of probity is one who loves justice and honesty, and who dislikes the contrary.”<Ref>John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution, Volume 2- 1855</Ref> True faith compels action. | ||
If we have real | If we have real faith<Ref>That Word You Use - Part 2 – Faith a conviction of Probity http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWord2nwv.php </Ref>we will attend to “the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith”<Ref>Matthew 23:23 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.” </Ref> which is why Christ condemned others who failed to do so and he will condemn many calling themselves Christians but through their apathy and avarice are actually workers of iniquity. | ||
If real faith was a conviction that compels one to act then what were early Christians doing and why did they get persecuted for doing it? | If real faith was a conviction that compels one to act then what were early Christians doing and why did they get persecuted for doing it? | ||
If Romans | If Romans 13<Ref>http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/THL/higherpower.php</Ref> meant then what modern Christian ministers often tell the people it means today, then early Christians should have been considered model citizens by both Romans and their government, yet they were often dragged into courts before judges and accused of contumacy8<Ref>Contumacy is a stubborn refusal to obey authority or, particularly in law, the willful contempt of the order or summons of a court (e.g. contempt of court.) The term is derived from the Latin word contumacia, meaning firmness or stubbornness. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)</Ref> and persecuted merely because they were “Christian”. | ||
Why? What are we missing about early Christianity as Christ taught it and are we willing to hear the truth if someone would have the courage to tell us? There is no easy way to tell you that you have been sold a lie and that much of what you have accepted as true has brought you back into bondage. | Why? What are we missing about early Christianity as Christ taught it and are we willing to hear the truth if someone would have the courage to tell us? There is no easy way to tell you that you have been sold a lie and that much of what you have accepted as true has brought you back into bondage. | ||
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Elements of society have ascribed new meanings to words like god, religion and faith in the mind of modern society and have left off the old. Yet, we continue to read ancient documents like the scriptures or historical accounts as if those words meant then what we have come to think or want to think they mean today. | Elements of society have ascribed new meanings to words like god, religion and faith in the mind of modern society and have left off the old. Yet, we continue to read ancient documents like the scriptures or historical accounts as if those words meant then what we have come to think or want to think they mean today. | ||
Augustus Caesar, whose real name was Octavius, was the first in Rome to receive the title APOTHEOS. That title and office of power meant he appointed gods. Unknown by most Americans today George Washington was the first to be publicly hailed as holding the “rank of | Augustus Caesar, whose real name was Octavius, was the first in Rome to receive the title APOTHEOS. That title and office of power meant he appointed gods. Unknown by most Americans today George Washington was the first to be publicly hailed as holding the “rank of god”,<Ref>http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php#Apotheosis</Ref> at least that is what a US government website says concerning the painting in the Capitol dome.<Ref>http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/murals/apotheosis-washington</Ref> In the United States all the presidents have had that same power granted to Augustus Caesar.<Ref>Article II, Section 2, Clause 2.[The President] shall nominate, and, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.</Ref> | ||
This | This apotheosis<Ref>a·poth·e·o·sis 1. “Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. “the elevation of a person to the rank of a god; deification” Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003. | ||
1. the elevation of a person to the rank of a god. | 1. the elevation of a person to the rank of a god. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.</Ref> of presidents was fundamentally no different than the deification of Caesar as god who was also the commander in chief of the military<Ref>Emperator, emperatoris m.commander in chief Collins L.E. Dict. ‘62. http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php#Emperator</Ref> and chief executive officer<Ref>http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php#President </Ref> of the world<Ref>http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php </Ref> order of Rome. History does repeat itself if we will not learn from it and if they are going to change our understanding of words we may all be deceived again.<Ref>2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. | ||
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, | 1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, | ||
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James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: James 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion [is] vain. James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.</Ref> | James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: James 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion [is] vain. James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.</Ref> | ||
Historians and linguists have known for years that the references to god and gods | Historians and linguists have known for years that the references to god and gods many<Ref>gods Many SS Video Series 9-10 9:45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr1SBMbK5Aw | ||
Article http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/godsmany.php</Ref> found in the Bible in both old and new testaments were references to the magistrates, judges and rulers of governments who exercise authority over the people. | Article http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/godsmany.php</Ref> found in the Bible in both old and new testaments were references to the magistrates, judges and rulers of governments who exercise authority over the people. | ||
Not only do both Thayer's19<Ref>Θεός is used of whatever can in any respect be likened to God, or resembles him in any way: Hebraistically, equivalent to God's representative or vicegerent, of magistrates and judges, THAYER'S GREEK LEXICON</Ref> and Strong’s | Not only do both Thayer's19<Ref>Θεός is used of whatever can in any respect be likened to God, or resembles him in any way: Hebraistically, equivalent to God's representative or vicegerent, of magistrates and judges, THAYER'S GREEK LEXICON</Ref> and Strong’s Concordance<Ref>Of uncertain affinity; a deity, especially (with ho) the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate;</Ref> verify this but also Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible<Ref>“It (Elohim) should seem to be second in dignity only to the name Jehovah : — as that name imports the essential being of the Divinity, so Elohim seems to import the power inherent in Deity ; or the manifestation of that power on its relative subjects." http://www.hisholychurch.net/sermon/godsmany.php</Ref> along with everyone from William Robertson of Edinburgh,<Ref>William Robertson (19 September 1721 – 11 June 1793) was a Scottish historian, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh.</Ref> to Walter Henry Medhurst,<Ref>The Proper Mode of Rendering the Word God in translating the Sacred Scriptures into the Chinese Language, Walter Henry Medhurst, the Mission Press 1848.</Ref> along with a list of Jewish grammarians and even Prof. Madan Mohan Shukla writing in the Vishveshvaran and Indological Journal. | ||
They all say the word god is applied commonly to kings, magistrates, judges, and others to whom reverence is shown, and which are regarded as representatives of the office which manifests that power over their relative subjects. In other words god is anyone who has the power or authority to decide good and evil for you. | They all say the word god is applied commonly to kings, magistrates, judges, and others to whom reverence is shown, and which are regarded as representatives of the office which manifests that power over their relative subjects. In other words god is anyone who has the power or authority to decide good and evil for you. | ||
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The word god is also related to the particular office and prerogative of judges and magistrates to administer oaths as the first principle of judicature or magistracy. These oaths are contracts or covenants that bind the people to the authority of others. | The word god is also related to the particular office and prerogative of judges and magistrates to administer oaths as the first principle of judicature or magistracy. These oaths are contracts or covenants that bind the people to the authority of others. | ||
These powers or natural rights relinquished by oath to kings, magistrates, judges, and rulers, or in other words gods many was prohibited by the God of the Old | These powers or natural rights relinquished by oath to kings, magistrates, judges, and rulers, or in other words gods many was prohibited by the God of the Old Testament<Ref>Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. Exodus 34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; | ||
Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. | Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. | ||
Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. | Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.<Br> | ||
Joshua 23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.<Br> | |||
Joshua 23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you. | 2 Kings 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:<Br> | ||
2 Kings 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.<Br> | |||
2 Kings 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: | Jeremiah 11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.<Br>Jeremiah 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.</Ref> and the New.<Ref>http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/covenants/ccc6.php</Ref> | ||
2 Kings 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. | |||
Jeremiah 11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. | |||
Jeremiah 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.</Ref> and the New. | |||
These gods | These gods many<Ref>There are gods many, Who are these gods many and what is a god? | ||
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/godsmany.php</Ref> that Paul speaks of have always been “Kings who have greater power than their subjects: magistrates who have greater power than those who come before them to obtain decision of their suits and application of the laws; and princes or men of rank, whether in office or not...”27<Ref>The Proper Mode of Rendering the Word God in translating the Sacred Scriptures into the Chinese Language, Walter Henry Medhurst, the Mission Press 1848. </Ref> | http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/godsmany.php</Ref> that Paul speaks of have always been “Kings who have greater power than their subjects: magistrates who have greater power than those who come before them to obtain decision of their suits and application of the laws; and princes or men of rank, whether in office or not...”27<Ref>The Proper Mode of Rendering the Word God in translating the Sacred Scriptures into the Chinese Language, Walter Henry Medhurst, the Mission Press 1848. </Ref> | ||
Every judge in the imperial courts of the Roman Empire was called a “god” because the word in both Greek and Hebrew meant rulers and judges and was used to address judges and magistrates in courts of law. The right of the emperor to appoint judges throughout the imperial courts as an appointor of these gods was simply a public office enjoyed by many political leaders then - and today. | Every judge in the imperial courts of the Roman Empire was called a “god” because the word in both Greek and Hebrew meant rulers and judges and was used to address judges and magistrates in courts of law. The right of the emperor to appoint judges throughout the imperial courts as an appointor of these gods was simply a public office enjoyed by many political leaders then - and today.<Ref>http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php</Ref> | ||
Even Jesus said “ye are | Even Jesus said “ye are gods”<Ref>John 10:34 “Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” </Ref> quoting David.<Ref>Psalms 82:6 “I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High.” </Ref> | ||
How could you be a god? | How could you be a god? | ||
Once you understanding that the word god means ruling judge then you may look at the early court systems of America when juries still decided Fact and Law and comprehend that you were once the ruling judges of your society who were attending to the weightier matters of law judgment mercy and faith, | Once you understanding that the word god means ruling judge then you may look at the early court systems of America when juries still decided Fact and Law and comprehend that you were once the ruling judges of your society who were attending to the weightier matters of law judgment mercy and faith,<Ref>Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.</Ref> just as Christ said you should. | ||
People often believe that the problem in today's world is the government, but that is not fair. The government did not create itself. It is a product of the people. | People often believe that the problem in today's world is the government, but that is not fair. The government did not create itself. It is a product of the people. | ||
The people of America and the several States should know that the constitution granted no rights to them nor were they a party to it.32<Ref>Covenants Part I, 1. The Party of the first parthttp://www.hisholychurch.org/study/covenants/ccc1.php </Ref> They were to retain their rights. | The people of America and the several States should know that the constitution granted no rights to them nor were they a party to it.32<Ref>Covenants Part I, 1. The Party of the first parthttp://www.hisholychurch.org/study/covenants/ccc1.php </Ref> They were to retain their rights.<Ref>Amendment IX. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.</Ref> You retain rights by accepting the responsibility correlative to those individual rights. If you neglect your responsibilities, your duty to your fellow man, you will lose your rights especially when you turn your responsibility over to what is often called “the government”. So, the problem is not the corruption of the courts as much as a corruption of the people. | ||
When the people of the republic of ancient Israel chose to give their personal responsibility to keep the courts of their nation honest by electing a ruler who would exercise authority, and hopefully set things right, they were said, by God, to be rejecting Him. | When the people of the republic of ancient Israel chose to give their personal responsibility to keep the courts of their nation honest by electing a ruler who would exercise authority, and hopefully set things right, they were said, by God, to be rejecting Him.<Ref>1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.</Ref> That rejection of God is a rejection of the kingdom of God. When Israel decided to elect a man like Cain, Lemech, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Saul, Solomon and Caesar to rule over them instead of having God reign through the hearts and minds of individuals gathered in free assemblies, their free society was doomed. | ||
A central power would grow and its resulting corporate bureaucracy would eat out the substance of the people as described in the Declaration of Independence, 1 Samuel 8, and Thomas Paine's Common Sense. | A central power would grow and its resulting corporate bureaucracy would eat out the substance of the people as described in the Declaration of Independence, 1 Samuel 8, and Thomas Paine's Common Sense.<Ref>Thomas Paine, Common Sense, warnings of Samuel | ||
http://www.hisholychurch.org/documents/commonsense.php</Ref> A pure republic requires the people to maintain their rights by daily diligence in preserving freedom by attending to the weightier matters of law, judgment, mercy, and faith. | http://www.hisholychurch.org/documents/commonsense.php</Ref> A pure republic requires the people to maintain their rights by daily diligence in preserving freedom by attending to the weightier matters of law, judgment, mercy, and faith. | ||
The only way to bind such a society together to accomplish such a daunting task without incorporating your rights is to bind society together by a true faith, hope and charity, and the perfect law of liberty. This is what loving one another as Christ loved us means. This is why Moses, Paul and James all said the same thing. | The only way to bind such a society together to accomplish such a daunting task without incorporating your rights is to bind society together by a true faith, hope and charity, and the perfect law of liberty. This is what loving one another as Christ loved us means. This is why Moses, Paul and James all said the same thing.<Ref>Leviticus 19:18 “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.” | ||
Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. | Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. | ||
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</Ref> This is how God sets us free if we will be doers of that word. | </Ref> This is how God sets us free if we will be doers of that word. | ||
Christ appointed men to be the benefactors of the people without exercising authority one over the other. To be His Church His ministers are to facilitate that appointed mission in free religious service. Remember, religion was how you care for the needy of you society and pure | Christ appointed men to be the benefactors of the people without exercising authority one over the other. To be His Church His ministers are to facilitate that appointed mission in free religious service. Remember, religion was how you care for the needy of you society and pure religion<Ref>Leviticus 19:18 “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.” | ||
Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. | Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. | ||
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</Ref> was doing that without applying to the fathers of the earth.38<Ref>Pure Religion, http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php</Ref> | </Ref> was doing that without applying to the fathers of the earth.38<Ref>Pure Religion, http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php</Ref> | ||
But the ministers of the modern church no longer provide the services of a free society in pure religion as His Church did in the beginning. They changed the meaning of the word religion and they misdirect minds with great swelling words39<Ref>2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.</</Ref> and fair speeches so the people serve not the Lord. | But the ministers of the modern church no longer provide the services of a free society in pure religion as His Church did in the beginning. They changed the meaning of the word religion and they misdirect minds with great swelling words39<Ref>2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.</</Ref> and fair speeches so the people serve not the Lord.<Ref>Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.</Ref> | ||
When Christ and John talked about the kingdom of God being at hand they were talking about going back, Repenting, to a status where God could reign over you instead of men reigning over you or you reigning over others. The kingdom of God is the right to be ruled by God. If you waive your God given rights by binding yourself to rulers and fathers upon the earth, or just neglect your duty to God and your fellow man, you will be bound again and should be bound. | When Christ and John talked about the kingdom of God being at hand they were talking about going back, Repenting, to a status where God could reign over you instead of men reigning over you or you reigning over others. The kingdom of God is the right to be ruled by God. If you waive your God given rights by binding yourself to rulers and fathers upon the earth, or just neglect your duty to God and your fellow man, you will be bound again and should be bound.<Ref>Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.-</Ref> | ||
Back in 1820 when Thomas Jefferson said, “The Judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.” the states were “as foreign to each other as Mexico is to Canada. | Back in 1820 when Thomas Jefferson said, “The Judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.” the states were “as foreign to each other as Mexico is to Canada.”<Ref>Clark's Summary of American Law, Constitutional Law. </Ref> | ||
The very next year he prophesied the warning that “...the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. When all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.” | The very next year he prophesied the warning that “...the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. When all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.” | ||
So is this why Jesus said that we should not omit the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith? | So is this why Jesus said that we should not omit the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith?<Ref>Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone</Ref>Is this why amongst free and virtuous people the jury should decide both fact and law?<Ref>That Word You Use - Part 3 – Jury. What is a jury and are their different kinds of juries?</Ref>Is this why there are systems of social welfare approved by Christ and system that make the word of God to none effect?<Ref>The Corban of the Pharisees</Ref> | ||
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php</Ref>So where is our real faith? Is it in God or ruling judges who exercise power and judgment? | http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php</Ref>So where is our real faith? Is it in God or ruling judges who exercise power and judgment? | ||
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Faith is still defined in modern legal dictionaries as “Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction. Vide Bona the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.” | Faith is still defined in modern legal dictionaries as “Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction. Vide Bona the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.” | ||
“To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the | “To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power<Ref>exousia ἐξουσία “power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases”.</Ref> of Satan <Ref>Satanas Σατανᾶς the Aramaic or adversary and is its meaning in the Greek.</Ref>unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” Acts 26:18 | ||
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Part 4 Are You Using That Word? - Judge
The Chaos theory as a field of study can apply to philosophy which is highly sensitive to initial conditions—the butterfly effect. A small difference in initial states yield widely diverging outcomes for ever-changing systems.
The butterfly effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. If there is intelligent design then can any deviation from these deterministic systems produced by an alternative intelligence produce predictable results?
Words are the symbols of ideas. Together those symbols may give us a picture of the truth or deceive us with lies. If you change the meaning of one word you will alter the vision of truth.
There is a war between good and evil throughout the history of mankind which is battling over the heart and mind of man. The tactics are rooted in grafting into man's mind an alternative pattern or image of the original truth. Although the alternative pattern will produce different results it is still a pattern and therefore produces predictable results. This, of course, explains why history does repeat itself.
Like the branches of a tree, if you graft in different branches you will get a different fruit. If you are able to change the meaning of words like religion and faith, jury or judges you will be able to change and control the minds of the people through their perception of those words and what they think they mean.
If the word religion1[1] at one time was the performance of your duty to “your fellow man” then under that definition how you perform that duty would be your true religion. At another period of time and among some societies that duty was performed by charity and grassroots institutions like the Church. At other times in history people did not depend on charity but forced contributions through rulers like Cain, Lemech, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Saul, Solomon and Caesar. These men called themselves benefactors but exercised authority one over the other.
The change in meaning of that one word could cause a major shift in the thinking of people and therefore society as a whole. This change would be resisted unless you get people to first imagine that religion was what you think about God and not what you do in the performance of your duty to God and your fellow man.[2]This idea that what you say you believe trumps what you actually do would be the direct opposite of what Christ taught as His doctrine.[3]
So to get the masses to accept or conform to this new definition of religion as what you believe about God you will have to change the meaning of the word faith too.
Faith was not just what you said you believed but was defined as probity. Probity was defined as “Justice, honesty. A man of probity is one who loves justice and honesty, and who dislikes the contrary.”[4] True faith compels action.
If we have real faith[5]we will attend to “the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith”[6] which is why Christ condemned others who failed to do so and he will condemn many calling themselves Christians but through their apathy and avarice are actually workers of iniquity.
If real faith was a conviction that compels one to act then what were early Christians doing and why did they get persecuted for doing it?
If Romans 13[7] meant then what modern Christian ministers often tell the people it means today, then early Christians should have been considered model citizens by both Romans and their government, yet they were often dragged into courts before judges and accused of contumacy8[8] and persecuted merely because they were “Christian”.
Why? What are we missing about early Christianity as Christ taught it and are we willing to hear the truth if someone would have the courage to tell us? There is no easy way to tell you that you have been sold a lie and that much of what you have accepted as true has brought you back into bondage.
Christianity was called the way but what the modern Church or modern Christian doctrines often say to do is not what the early Christians were doing. If a Christian by definition was a follower of Christ, what did it mean to do things according to His Way[9] or in His Name?
Romans had a very open and promiscuous attitude concerning religion and the divine. Religious freedom was actually guaranteed in the original republic. So what was the dispute that brought ridicule and contempt along with bloody persecution? What was the conflict concerning the Christian religion and Rome?
Many put the dispute between those called Christians and Rome upon the deification of men as living Emperor-gods of Rome. This notion is poorly understood because besides not understanding the word religion they also do not understand the word “god” in the Hebrew, Greek and other languages. Even the Sanskrit's Deva, is generally misunderstood today by limiting its ancient meanings to the supreme being of your choice.
Elements of society have ascribed new meanings to words like god, religion and faith in the mind of modern society and have left off the old. Yet, we continue to read ancient documents like the scriptures or historical accounts as if those words meant then what we have come to think or want to think they mean today.
Augustus Caesar, whose real name was Octavius, was the first in Rome to receive the title APOTHEOS. That title and office of power meant he appointed gods. Unknown by most Americans today George Washington was the first to be publicly hailed as holding the “rank of god”,[10] at least that is what a US government website says concerning the painting in the Capitol dome.[11] In the United States all the presidents have had that same power granted to Augustus Caesar.[12]
This apotheosis[13] of presidents was fundamentally no different than the deification of Caesar as god who was also the commander in chief of the military[14] and chief executive officer[15] of the world[16] order of Rome. History does repeat itself if we will not learn from it and if they are going to change our understanding of words we may all be deceived again.[17]
Historians and linguists have known for years that the references to god and gods many[18] found in the Bible in both old and new testaments were references to the magistrates, judges and rulers of governments who exercise authority over the people.
Not only do both Thayer's19[19] and Strong’s Concordance[20] verify this but also Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible[21] along with everyone from William Robertson of Edinburgh,[22] to Walter Henry Medhurst,[23] along with a list of Jewish grammarians and even Prof. Madan Mohan Shukla writing in the Vishveshvaran and Indological Journal.
They all say the word god is applied commonly to kings, magistrates, judges, and others to whom reverence is shown, and which are regarded as representatives of the office which manifests that power over their relative subjects. In other words god is anyone who has the power or authority to decide good and evil for you.
The word god is also related to the particular office and prerogative of judges and magistrates to administer oaths as the first principle of judicature or magistracy. These oaths are contracts or covenants that bind the people to the authority of others.
These powers or natural rights relinquished by oath to kings, magistrates, judges, and rulers, or in other words gods many was prohibited by the God of the Old Testament[24] and the New.[25]
These gods many[26] that Paul speaks of have always been “Kings who have greater power than their subjects: magistrates who have greater power than those who come before them to obtain decision of their suits and application of the laws; and princes or men of rank, whether in office or not...”27[27]
Every judge in the imperial courts of the Roman Empire was called a “god” because the word in both Greek and Hebrew meant rulers and judges and was used to address judges and magistrates in courts of law. The right of the emperor to appoint judges throughout the imperial courts as an appointor of these gods was simply a public office enjoyed by many political leaders then - and today.[28]
Even Jesus said “ye are gods”[29] quoting David.[30]
How could you be a god?
Once you understanding that the word god means ruling judge then you may look at the early court systems of America when juries still decided Fact and Law and comprehend that you were once the ruling judges of your society who were attending to the weightier matters of law judgment mercy and faith,[31] just as Christ said you should.
People often believe that the problem in today's world is the government, but that is not fair. The government did not create itself. It is a product of the people.
The people of America and the several States should know that the constitution granted no rights to them nor were they a party to it.32[32] They were to retain their rights.[33] You retain rights by accepting the responsibility correlative to those individual rights. If you neglect your responsibilities, your duty to your fellow man, you will lose your rights especially when you turn your responsibility over to what is often called “the government”. So, the problem is not the corruption of the courts as much as a corruption of the people.
When the people of the republic of ancient Israel chose to give their personal responsibility to keep the courts of their nation honest by electing a ruler who would exercise authority, and hopefully set things right, they were said, by God, to be rejecting Him.[34] That rejection of God is a rejection of the kingdom of God. When Israel decided to elect a man like Cain, Lemech, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Saul, Solomon and Caesar to rule over them instead of having God reign through the hearts and minds of individuals gathered in free assemblies, their free society was doomed.
A central power would grow and its resulting corporate bureaucracy would eat out the substance of the people as described in the Declaration of Independence, 1 Samuel 8, and Thomas Paine's Common Sense.[35] A pure republic requires the people to maintain their rights by daily diligence in preserving freedom by attending to the weightier matters of law, judgment, mercy, and faith.
The only way to bind such a society together to accomplish such a daunting task without incorporating your rights is to bind society together by a true faith, hope and charity, and the perfect law of liberty. This is what loving one another as Christ loved us means. This is why Moses, Paul and James all said the same thing.[36] This is how God sets us free if we will be doers of that word.
Christ appointed men to be the benefactors of the people without exercising authority one over the other. To be His Church His ministers are to facilitate that appointed mission in free religious service. Remember, religion was how you care for the needy of you society and pure religion[37] was doing that without applying to the fathers of the earth.38[38]
But the ministers of the modern church no longer provide the services of a free society in pure religion as His Church did in the beginning. They changed the meaning of the word religion and they misdirect minds with great swelling words39[39] and fair speeches so the people serve not the Lord.[40]
When Christ and John talked about the kingdom of God being at hand they were talking about going back, Repenting, to a status where God could reign over you instead of men reigning over you or you reigning over others. The kingdom of God is the right to be ruled by God. If you waive your God given rights by binding yourself to rulers and fathers upon the earth, or just neglect your duty to God and your fellow man, you will be bound again and should be bound.[41]
Back in 1820 when Thomas Jefferson said, “The Judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.” the states were “as foreign to each other as Mexico is to Canada.”[42]
The very next year he prophesied the warning that “...the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. When all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”
So is this why Jesus said that we should not omit the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith?[43]Is this why amongst free and virtuous people the jury should decide both fact and law?[44]Is this why there are systems of social welfare approved by Christ and system that make the word of God to none effect?[45]
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php</Ref>So where is our real faith? Is it in God or ruling judges who exercise power and judgment?
Faith is still defined in modern legal dictionaries as “Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction. Vide Bona the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.”
“To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power[46] of Satan [47]unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” Acts 26:18
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Footnotes
- ↑ Pure Religion. What is it and who does it? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php
- ↑ That Word You Use- Part 1- Religion in the constitution? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWordnwv.php
- ↑ Matthew 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Luke 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luke 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
John 14:15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. - ↑ John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution, Volume 2- 1855
- ↑ That Word You Use - Part 2 – Faith a conviction of Probity http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWord2nwv.php
- ↑ Matthew 23:23 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”
- ↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/THL/higherpower.php
- ↑ Contumacy is a stubborn refusal to obey authority or, particularly in law, the willful contempt of the order or summons of a court (e.g. contempt of court.) The term is derived from the Latin word contumacia, meaning firmness or stubbornness. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)
- ↑ John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.?”
- ↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php#Apotheosis
- ↑ http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/murals/apotheosis-washington
- ↑ Article II, Section 2, Clause 2.[The President] shall nominate, and, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
- ↑ a·poth·e·o·sis 1. “Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. “the elevation of a person to the rank of a god; deification” Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003. 1. the elevation of a person to the rank of a god. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.
- ↑ Emperator, emperatoris m.commander in chief Collins L.E. Dict. ‘62. http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php#Emperator
- ↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php#President
- ↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php
- ↑ 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Luke 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am [Christ]; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: James 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion [is] vain. James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- ↑ gods Many SS Video Series 9-10 9:45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr1SBMbK5Aw Article http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/godsmany.php
- ↑ Θεός is used of whatever can in any respect be likened to God, or resembles him in any way: Hebraistically, equivalent to God's representative or vicegerent, of magistrates and judges, THAYER'S GREEK LEXICON
- ↑ Of uncertain affinity; a deity, especially (with ho) the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate;
- ↑ “It (Elohim) should seem to be second in dignity only to the name Jehovah : — as that name imports the essential being of the Divinity, so Elohim seems to import the power inherent in Deity ; or the manifestation of that power on its relative subjects." http://www.hisholychurch.net/sermon/godsmany.php
- ↑ William Robertson (19 September 1721 – 11 June 1793) was a Scottish historian, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
- ↑ The Proper Mode of Rendering the Word God in translating the Sacred Scriptures into the Chinese Language, Walter Henry Medhurst, the Mission Press 1848.
- ↑ Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. Exodus 34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Joshua 23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
2 Kings 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
2 Kings 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
Jeremiah 11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
Jeremiah 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. - ↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/covenants/ccc6.php
- ↑ There are gods many, Who are these gods many and what is a god? http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/godsmany.php
- ↑ The Proper Mode of Rendering the Word God in translating the Sacred Scriptures into the Chinese Language, Walter Henry Medhurst, the Mission Press 1848.
- ↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php
- ↑ John 10:34 “Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?”
- ↑ Psalms 82:6 “I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High.”
- ↑ Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
- ↑ Covenants Part I, 1. The Party of the first parthttp://www.hisholychurch.org/study/covenants/ccc1.php
- ↑ Amendment IX. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
- ↑ 1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
- ↑ Thomas Paine, Common Sense, warnings of Samuel http://www.hisholychurch.org/documents/commonsense.php
- ↑ Leviticus 19:18 “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.” Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Mark 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- ↑ Leviticus 19:18 “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.” Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Mark 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- ↑ Pure Religion, http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php
- ↑ 2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.</
- ↑ Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
- ↑ Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.-
- ↑ Clark's Summary of American Law, Constitutional Law.
- ↑ Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone
- ↑ That Word You Use - Part 3 – Jury. What is a jury and are their different kinds of juries?
- ↑ The Corban of the Pharisees
- ↑ exousia ἐξουσία “power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases”.
- ↑ Satanas Σατανᾶς the Aramaic or adversary and is its meaning in the Greek.